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Thanks for the advice, all! I ended up throwing out one bag of rings, rinsed off the other and returned it to the filter, and added one new bag that I'd already purchased. I clipped the reused bag so I know next year which one is older. I also replaced the old sponges. When I restarted the...

Well, that's the way of the wild. Since my daughter has decided to leave these mollies with us, I'm actually feeling a bit relieved I'm not likely to end up with dozens of them. They have really livened up our aquarium, though. Our five-year-old angelfish was getting more and more sulky...

My daughter brought home for Christmas break seven mollies from her college dorm room and put them in our aquarium. These mollies had been reproducing in her dorm room tank during the first semester, and she and her roommate were up to 40-something fish. Anyway, my daughter said that a...

Four years ago, I planted our new aquarium with species that were supposed to have low light requirements, since the tank is in a location where it gets almost no direct sunlight. Over the years, all of them have died out -- except one (photo attached). I don't remember what variety this...

The vendor says the biological filter rings should be replaced annually. But isn't the whole idea for them to get covered in miasmic gunk? Would they ever stop working and need to be replaced by new rings? Last year, I replaced half the rings and left the other half. What do you experts do...

Thanks for those insights. Regarding the die-off theory, we had the tetras for about six weeks and they all seemed healthy, then in the space of less than two weeks four disappear, then in the last two weeks, no more are gone. I decided to observe Stripey by looking through a cracked-open...

I'm helping my 9-year-old son establish and maintain a 28-gallon freshwater, planted tank. He had a year-old angel fish that he previously kept in a one-gallon tank, and along with him we introduced six neon tetras and four glass catfish. We also put in several ghost shrimp but they...

The video upload evidently didn't work. I then uploaded it to Google+ and posted a link. That post is in moderation -- I guess that happens automatically when a link is included in a post. So maybe at some point the video will be available. Meanwhile, though, I'm interested if anyone has any...

Oops, well, it looks like the video upload didn't work, for whatever reason. :oops: Here is a link to the video: https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/115620816511135743331/albums/5972876551943494545/5972876560123946562?pid=5972876560123946562&oid=115620816511135743331

I've uploaded a short video that shows the situation in the tank with the pumps on. You can see the plants waving, and Stripey at the moment has deposited himself in back of the aerator, which seems perhaps the calmest place in the tank. He's hanging near the bottom and doesn't look happy in...

Yesterday, after I turned the filter on in the morning, Stripey planted himself inside a large Amazon sword in the back corner and pretty much stayed there all day. He was frisky this morning after a night in calm water, but after he and his companions were fed, my son turned on the pumps and...

Thanks for the reply. The pumps are the stock pumps for the Nanocube 28g HQI -- Accela 266gph. Is there any way to tone these down? Can I remove the nozzles from the returns to disperse the water a bit?

I recently bought a used Nanocube 28g tank for my son to take his hobby to the next level. For the past year, he'd been keeping one angelfish in a 1g tank, which he had long since outgrown. I didn't realize when I got it that the Nanocube is for a saltwater reef aquarium. However, I didn't...